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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ab22ed | But once a woman stole the initiative, plundered the perquisites and took the lead, what happened to the globe? The fabric cracked | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8b0f59d | He laughed and shook his head. "I think you're incorrigible." "Good God, I hope so. Otherwise why live?" | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b115f25 | The world I knew has gone. This is tomorrow | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 983d0fe | Impossible that they should live while I was no more a part of existence | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0626127 | It seemed strange that life must go on without our need for it | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 91738f8 | I was young, and I'd never been hurt before | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8ec9f78 | Jake, I don't want ever to be old. I want always to get up in the morning and feel there's something grand lying just ahead of me, round the corner, over a hill. I want always to feel that if I stand still, only for a minute, I'm missing something a few yards away. I don't want ever to find myself thinking: "What's the use of going across that street?" That's the end of everything, Jake, when looking for things doesn't count any more. When .. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 05a73e6 | it was hell how one always wanted a little more | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1419d55 | It was hopeless the way time did not stand still, not for a fraction of a second, that there was never an occasion when I could grasp the whole intensity of pleasure, examining it, breathing it, holding it softly with my hands and saying: 'Now I am living, now . . . now . . .' It was nothing but a series of flashes quivering before my eyes, dancing themselves away | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 82747ae | This house sheltered us, we spoke, we lived within those walls. That was yesterday. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9c01fb2 | Memories are very beautiful things, when you are old | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| fccca52 | He wanted to lose the memory of that world; they wished to hold it | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 7e67a8d | A solitary curlew stood pensively beside the stream, watching his reflection in the water; and then his long beak darted with incredible swiftness into the reeds, stabbing at the soft mud, and, turning his head, he tucked his legs under him and rose into the air, calling his plaintive note, and streaking for the south. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ad92312 | La felicidad no es un bien que pueda atesorarse; es una manera de pensar, un estado de animo. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 316a176 | Good pictures, good furniture and fittings, are all sound investments. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a6297f8 | We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9eb74df | He travels the fastest who travels alone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3a5ca99 | I wondered why I had ever despised these things, why they had once seemed pitiful and absurd. I wondered why the placidity of a home seemed necessary to me now, and why I no longer yearned for the turmoil of a ship upon the sea. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d97f62e | Once there had been a path across the mountains, and restlessness, and an urge to fight, and a dream of many women, and now there was a home that was my home, and peace, and relaxation, and no dreams but the reality of one woman. I did not know if it was I who had changed, or the world that had changed about me, but so it was, and I could not call back the dreams that had gone from me. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| df126b1 | The restlessness has gone, the indecision and also the great heights of exultation, the strange depths of desolation. I am secure now, and certain of myself. There is peace and contentment. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f6378fd | The people don't want to be understood, it would spoil their sense of injustice. They revel in their wrongs | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8c6d099 | The trouble is that goodness dies, and lies buried in the earth. Cleverness passes on and becomes degenerate. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3707651 | Thinking never did anybody any good | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3467b2d | What was John-Henry but the outcome of the years? | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 98726fd | Original proposals were much better. More genuine. Not like other people. Not like younger men who talked non sense probably not meaning half they said. Not like younger men being very incoherent, very passionate, swearing impossibilities. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 44a78d5 | He would stare down at us in our new world from a long-distant past--a past where men walked cloaked at night, and stood in the shadow of old doorways, a past of narrow stairways and dim dungeons, a past of whispers in the dark, of shimmering rapier blades, of silent, exquisite courtesy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 14499d1 | All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore them. Something happened a year ago that altered my whole life, and I want to forget every phase in my existence up to that time. Those days are finished. They are blotted out. I must begin living all over again. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f9d2574 | No shadows steal upon this hard glare, the stony vineyards shimmer in the sun and the bougainvillaea is white with dust. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 6c95c05 | Mander smiled: "A woman is as old as she looks, a man is as old as he feels, Sir Julius. You know the old saying?" | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ec2d40d | Nature had come into her own again, and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way, had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 752e30e | Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f0f72a8 | Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e62b86b | Poor whims of fancy, tender and unharsh. They are the enemy to bitterness and regret, and sweeten this exile we have brought upon ourselves. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8a7418c | I did not know one could buy companionship," he said, "it sounds a primitive idea. Rather like the eastern slave market." "I looked up the word companion once in the dictionary," I admitted,"and it said 'a companion is a friend of the bosom." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 4892353 | If I told you I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex. Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 48b7a10 | Listen, my sweet. When you were a little girl, were you ever forbidden to read certain books, and did your father put those books under lock and key?" "Yes," I said. "Well, then. A husband is not so very different from a father after all. There is a certain type of knowledge I prefer you not to have. It's better kept under lock and key. So that's that. And now eat up your peaches, and don't ask me any more questions, or I shall put you in t.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3de684c | To him, the drug released the complex brew within the brain that served up the savored past. To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses. I was Roger, I was Bodrugan, I was Cain; and in being so was more truly myself. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 89ff563 | Three years of marriage," he said, "and the dishwasher means more to your conjugal life than the double bed I'm throwing in for good measure. I warned you it wouldn't last. The marriage, I mean, not the bed." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 141ae76 | So much for women's value in other days. Goods reared for purchase, then bought and sold in the market-place, or rather manor. Small wonder that, their duty done, they looked round for consolation, either by taking a lover or by playing an active part in the bargaining over their own daughters and sons. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8d012cd | Could time be all-dimensional--yesterday, today, tomorrow running concurrently in ceaseless repetition? Perhaps | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| c8e8937 | I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza. | daphne-du-maurier gothic-fiction gothic-horror rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| cc697db | When I lie I like to base the lie on a foundation of fact, for it appeases not only conscience but a sense of justice. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b2d6fdf | What they had dreamed of, schemed for, accomplished, no longer mattered, it was all forgotten. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1ea0d65 | I wish I were a man, William." "Why so, my lady?" "Because I too would find my ship, and go forth, a law unto myself." | Daphne du Maurier |